Stories
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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The obligation of Christians to beautify and adorn their churches; shewn From the Authority of the Holy Scriptures, from the Practice of the Primitive Church, and from the Discipline of the Church of England Established by Law. By Mr. Lewis.
Lewis, Thomas, 1689-1749?.Date: 1721- Books
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The ornaments of churches considered, with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret Westminster. To which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church; an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it; a state of the prosecution it has occasioned; and other papers.
Hole, William, 1710-1791.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
Wood carvings in English churches.
Date: 1910-- Books
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The romance of symbolism and its relation to church ornament and architecture / by Sidney Heath.
Heath, Sidney, 1872-Date: 1909- Pictures
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Procession inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.
Pâris, Edmond, 1806-1893.Date: [1862]Reference: 38010iPart of: Souvenirs de Jérusalem